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Comprehensive narrative-review evidence

Crustacean By-Products Hold High-Value Compounds, but ‘Green’ Extraction Still Lacks LCA and Industrial Proof

This review compares conventional acid–alkali and solvent extraction with supercritical fluids, enzymatic hydrolysis, pulsed electric fields, ultrasound, cold plasma, microwave, high-pressure processing, and deep eutectic solvents for recovering bioactives from crustacean by-products. No technology is universally optimal: conventional methods retain advantages in simplicity and maturity, while emerging methods may reduce chemicals or better preserve product quality but face equipment, cost, energy, reproducibility, and pilot-scale constraints. The paper is therefore a map of options and evidence gaps, not proof that one technology is the ‘most sustainable.’

Akanksha R. Gautam · Soottawat Benjakul · Rattikarn Boonchoosri · Nilesh Nirmal · Avtar SinghInternational Center of Excellence in Seafood Science and Innovation, Faculty of Agro-Industry, Prince of Songkla University · Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University

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EDITORIAL DEEP DIVES

In-depth research analyses

Source-verified editorial analyses, ordered by latest publication date

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Geospatial Agriculture and Environment89IMPACT SIGNAL

Regional model-validation evidence25 Aug 2026

GEDI–Sentinel Model Maps Northeast Thai Rubber at 82.63% Accuracy but Struggles With Young Plantations

This study mapped 2024 rubber distribution and age structure across Northeast Thailand using Random Forest in Google Earth Engine, combining Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, vegetation indices, and a GEDI-trained canopy-height model. Three-class rubber mapping reached 82.63% overall accuracy and about 0.84 F1; three-group age classification reached 83.39%. Plantations older than seven years dominated and were classified more reliably than young stands. The output is a regional monitoring baseline, not an error-free parcel-level decision map.

Thai researchersSavittri Ratanopad Suwanlee · Muhammad Hanif · Surasak Keawsomsee · Kemin Kasa · Narissara Nuthammachot · Sarawut Ninsawat · Jantima Polpinij · Jaturong Som-Ard

Medical Education and Serious-Illness Care89IMPACT SIGNAL

Longitudinal training evidence24 Aug 2026

Advance-Care-Planning Training Raised Residents’ Knowledge From 7.74 to 8.65, but Had No Control Group

This mixed-methods evaluation tested an Advance Care Planning programme combining role-play, personal-value reflection, and two Circle of Learning sessions with an entire cohort of 50 first-year internal-medicine residents. Longitudinal analysis used 34 complete cases through 15 months, and 10 residents were interviewed. Knowledge rose from 7.74 to 8.65 out of 9, alongside several attitude and confidence improvements. Interviewees said role-play bridged theory and practice but identified a need for ongoing workplace support. The evidence concerns learner readiness, not observed conversation quality or patient outcomes.

Thai researchersThagoon Kanjanopas · Smuch Siramongkholkarn · Wanna Jarusomboon · Ekkapop Sittiwantana · Arisa Phochaisarn · Saipin Hathirat · Saran Thanapluetiwong

Public Health and Migrant Health92IMPACT SIGNAL

Evidence of global relevance19 Aug 2026

Migrant TB Patients Chose Months-Long Sanatorium Care to Pursue Cure Amid Cost, Transport, and Documentation Barriers

This multi-perspective qualitative study at the SMRU tuberculosis sanatorium in Mae Ramat, Tak Province, examined why migrants choose long residential treatment. It included 37 unique patients—33 who chose the sanatorium and four who chose community DOTS—plus five health workers. Three themes organized the findings: desire for cure, barriers to diagnosis and treatment, and community and organizational support.

Thai researchersJindaporn Wirachonphaophong · Hai Ti Ti · Nay Kaw Htoo · Kanjana Winyoorat · Cha Ba · San Soe · Suphak Nosten · Htet Ko Ko Aung · Sein Sein Thi · Francois Nosten

Public Health and Health Systems92IMPACT SIGNAL

Qualitative evidence for service design18 Aug 2026

Patients in South Ethiopia Know How to Manage Diabetes, but Drug Shortages and Costs Undercut Self-Care

This qualitative study examined diabetes self-care in three South Ethiopian hospital clinics. Its 21 participants comprised 12 adults with type 2 diabetes and nine healthcare providers. Patients described medication, diet, physical activity, foot care, and glucose monitoring as daily work negotiated against financial pressure, drug shortages, beliefs, food costs, limited support, and health-system constraints. Patients tended to foreground structural barriers, whereas providers placed more emphasis on knowledge and forgetting advice. Continued counselling, reliable medicines, and peer support emerged as priorities, but these are interview-derived design directions rather than tested interventions.

Thai researchersTemesgen Anjulo Ageru · Cua Ngoc Le · Apichai Wattanapisit · Charuai Suwanbamrung

Evidence of global relevance6 Aug 2026

Perspectives on the forest bioeconomy: insights of stakeholders from cases in Central Europe and the Mekong region

This comparative study examines how 336 purposively recruited respondents in Czechia, Slovakia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam understand and assess the forest bioeconomy. Respondents generally reported stronger familiarity with sustainable forest management and the circular economy than with the bioeconomy itself. Perceptions also varied across country cases, particularly within the Mekong region. A binary logistic regression identified associations between high perceived implementation and country, age, education, understanding of policy aims, support for implementation and positive assessments of forest-industry implementation. These findings describe perceptions within the recruited sample rather than national populations, and the reported associations should not be interpreted as causal effects.

Thai researchersNopparat Kaakkurivaara · Alice Sharp · Prasit Wangpakapattanawong

One Health and Zoonotic-Disease Prevention92IMPACT SIGNAL

Formative evidence for One Health intervention design4 Aug 2026

Zoonotic Risk in Rural Nan Is Not Just Behavioural: Water Scarcity, Forest Change, and Food Systems Connect Five Interfaces

Researchers examined everyday practices and conditions that could enable cross-species transmission in four rural villages in Nan Province, organising findings into five interfaces: human–animal, human–environment, human-human, animal–animal, and animal–environment. The picture is not simply one of deficient knowledge. Animal contact, butchering and food preparation, water scarcity and contamination, waste, forest change, intensified agriculture, mixed-species proximity, and multilingual communication operate as a system. Community leaders and village health volunteers were viewed as trusted messengers. The study therefore recommends education that combines knowledge, skills, practical tools, and recognition of structural limits, but it neither completed nor evaluated the final intervention.

Thai researchersMonchai Phongsiri · Simaphon Tomklang · Theerayuth Labooth · Thanapat Chaibut · Pongsakon Jaruton · Kotthamon Chanprathad · Sarutaya Suphawatthanaphan · Hans Overgaard · Patcharin Lapanun

Circular Bioeconomy and Seafood Technology92IMPACT SIGNAL

Comprehensive narrative-review evidence3 Aug 2026

Crustacean By-Products Hold High-Value Compounds, but ‘Green’ Extraction Still Lacks LCA and Industrial Proof

Thai researchersAkanksha R. Gautam · Soottawat Benjakul · Rattikarn Boonchoosri · Nilesh Nirmal · Avtar Singh

Public Health and Viral Hepatitis92IMPACT SIGNAL

Province-scale real-world programme evidence1 Aug 2026

Phetchabun Screens 97.3% for HCV; 96.4% of SVR12-Evaluable Patients Are Cured, but Transmission Elimination Is Unproven

Phetchabun’s micro-elimination programme linked fingerstick anti-HCV testing, HCV-RNA confirmation, and 12-week sofosbuvir/velpatasvir treatment through primary-care and district-hospital services across all 11 districts under universal health coverage. From 2020 to April 2026, 389,547 of 400,567 targeted people were screened (97.25%); 14,845 of 18,340 anti-HCV-reactive participants received RNA confirmation (80.94%), identifying 10,996 active infections. Of 8,961 treatment-eligible patients, 8,842 received therapy (98.67%); among 6,719 evaluated at SVR12, 6,474 were cured (96.35%). The programme demonstrates province-scale test-to-treat feasibility, but not yet the incidence or mortality reductions required for elimination.

Thai researchersWijitra Phaengkha · Pornjarim Nilyanimit · Nungruthai Suntronwong · Jiratchaya Puenpa · Duong Hoang Huy Le · Saranya Ngamnimit · Pattama Janpathip · Lapasrada Kamput · Kawin Thongnoi · Wanalee Toomta · Phatcha Wohanklong · Jarunlak Saokeaw · Niphapornt Thammajit · Suwannee Rerngleum · Ananyalak Yoisara · Nitiya Srisuk · Jidapa Suwannachat · Anchalee Karagate · Rujipat Wasitthankasem · Yong Poovorawan

Health Systems and Antimicrobial Stewardship92IMPACT SIGNAL

Global potential1 Aug 2026

Four Countries Have Antimicrobial-Stewardship Policies, but 16 Hospitals Average 72% Implementation and Training Lags

This study linked national policy, hospital systems, and provider behaviour in Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand, and Viet Nam during 2022–2023. It included 486 participants across 16 hospitals. All countries had antimicrobial-stewardship policies, but financing, enforcement, training, microbiology-data use, and inter-programme coordination were uneven. Hospitals averaged 72% on G-ASET, with tracking and reporting highest at 75% and training lowest at 66%. The two Thai hospitals scored 81.3% and 80.6% overall, yet both scored only 50% for training. These results identify actionable system gaps; they do not experimentally show that any intervention reduced antibiotic use, resistance, or mortality.

Thai researchersDirek Limmathurotsakul · Anucha Apisarnthanarak

Zoonotic Neglected Tropical Diseases and Surveillance92IMPACT SIGNAL

Global potential30 Jul 2026

Twenty-Year Review Finds Zoonotic NTDs Remain Hidden in Laos and Cambodia as Diagnostics and Surveillance Stay Fragmented

The article synthesises publications and long-running surveillance at the animal–human interface in Laos and Cambodia, covering Taenia solium, Trichinella, Streptococcus suis, rickettsiae, melioidosis, hepatitis E, and Japanese encephalitis. Its recurring message is diagnostic invisibility caused by limited laboratories and fragmented human–animal–environment systems, with risks embedded in smallholder livestock, informal slaughter, raw-meat consumption, wet markets, and animal-contact occupations. It proposes scaling abattoir, animal-sentinel, market, and environmental surveillance alongside livelihood-aware risk communication. This is a narrative synthesis, not a systematic review or one national survey, so it maps patterns and gaps rather than estimating current national burden.

Thai researchersStuart D. Blacksell · Syseng Khounsy · Jarunee Siengsanan-Lamont · Lida Kong · Jaison B. Kolenchery · Paul N. Newton · Nicholas P. J. Day

Malaria Epidemiology and Elimination92IMPACT SIGNAL

Regional surveillance evidence29 Jul 2026

Surveillance of 13,386 Sumatra Cases Links Imported Malaria to Mobile Populations and Elimination to District Context

Using individual surveillance records from 2019–2021, this study examined both malaria case patterns and district factors associated with elimination across Sumatra. Of 13,386 reported cases, 71.8% were Plasmodium vivax; among 11,390 investigated cases, 15.3% were classified as imported. Multilevel models identified associations with mobile populations and clinical characteristics, while district elimination was associated with higher human development, lower historical burden, and fewer endemic neighbours. These are observational surveillance associations, not causal effects of a policy.

Thai researchersKarina D Lestari · Sri B Fajariyani · Pimphen Charoen · Saranath Lawpoolsri · Wirichada Pan-ngum

Health Equity and Malaria Elimination92IMPACT SIGNAL

Scoping-review evidence28 Jul 2026

Review of 52 Studies Finds Low but Hidden Malaria Burden Among Mobile Populations in Mekong Border and Forest Areas

This synthesis mapped malaria evidence among migrant and mobile populations in the Greater Mekong Subregion across epidemiology, access, prevention, and health-system challenges. Of 847 records, 52 studies met inclusion criteria. Reported burden was generally low but highly variable, with hidden reservoirs from asymptomatic or submicroscopic infection in border and forest settings. Structural barriers contributed to delayed diagnosis, inconsistent prevention, and reliance on informal or cross-border care. The review exposes intervention-evaluation gaps rather than proving which approach works best.

Thai researchersPyae Linn Aung · Ajjima Thussachan · Naing Bo Bo Min · Jetsumon Sattabongkot

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH WATCHLIST

Bibliographic research records

Thailand-affiliated bibliographic records. These are not full analyses; they are ordered by Impact Signal and should be verified against the original source.

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2,955 records

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Multidisciplinary30 Sep 2026

Effectiveness of an Integrated Activity-Based and Tele-Monitoring Intervention on Mental Health Literacy and Resilience among Urban Older Adults in Thailand: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Journal of Health Research

Thailand-affiliated authors: Khunatpakorn Makkabphalanon · Pramote Thangkratok · Jutamast Wongjan · Natchaya Palacheewa
Institutions: Praboromarajchanok Institute Ministry of Public Health · Boromarajonani College of Nursing, Nakhon Ratchasima · Srisavarindhira Thai Red Cross Institute of Nursing

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Multidisciplinary30 Sep 2026

Valorization of polyphenol-rich extracts from Oroxylum indicum (L.) kurz outer stem bark as sustainable textile colourants: Comparison concerns selected GOTS 7.0 colour fastness criteria on effects of six mordants and pre-, meta- and post-mordanting techniques on dyeing properties

Frontiers in Engineering Innovation Research

Thailand-affiliated authors: Siripan Metanawin · Apichart Sonthisombat · Mahamasuhaimi Masae · Sumonman Niamlang · Jantana Sutdaen · Pannarai Rug-ngarn · Orathai Tangsirinaruenart · Tanapak Metanawin · Sarunya Puakpong
Institutions: Rajamangala University of Technology · Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya · King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok · Kasetsart University

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Multidisciplinary30 Sep 2026

Role of Legislation in Occupational Disease Prevention: A Case of Chronic Silicosis with Progressive Massive Fibrosis

THE BANGKOK MEDICAL JOURNAL

Thailand-affiliated authors: Thammarath Thiamsuk · Supakorn Chansaengpetch · Tirathat Virojskulchai · Ekanut Jamsai · Sitthiphon Bunman · Narongpon Dumavibhat
Institutions: Siriraj Hospital · Mahidol University · Chulalongkorn University · Thammasat University

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Environmental Engineering30 Sep 2026

Macroevolutionary dynamics and predictors of tropical rain forest plant diversity

Science Advances

Thailand-affiliated authors: Pasakorn Bunchalee · Tanawat Chaowasku · Anissara Damthongdee · Charan Leeratiwong
Institutions: Mahasarakham University · Chiang Mai University · Prince of Songkla University

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Multidisciplinary30 Sep 2026